“For those
of us familiar with the diverse and exhilarating work of Mel Alexenberg as an
artist, educator and profound thinker, this latest book offers precisely the
four things we would expect. The narrative thinks brilliantly outside the box.
It synthesizes the realm of the abstruse and transcendent with the realm of the
concrete and immanent. It crisscrosses disciplines, from science and technology
to philosophy and mysticism to art as both historical and creative phenomena.
Finally, the entirety is managed in a style both accessible and inviting. Those
with prior knowledge of any or all of the disciplines from which Alexenberg
draws will smile again and again in affirmation, and those entering without
prior knowledge will be thrilled to understand things that they thought might
be beyond them. This is one of those books that other thinkers will wish they
had somehow thought about how to write, and to which readers of diverse sorts
will simply respond by saying: wow!”
- Dr. Ori Z. Soltes, author of Tradition and Transformation: Three Millennia of Jewish Art and Architecture; professorial lecturer of Theology and Fine Arts, Georgetown University, Washington, DC
- Dr. Ori Z. Soltes, author of Tradition and Transformation: Three Millennia of Jewish Art and Architecture; professorial lecturer of Theology and Fine Arts, Georgetown University, Washington, DC